Calling out Intellectual Dishonesty

The following is a post I wrote on Sam Harris’ Facebook page in response to a recent conversation brokered between Harris and a certain Omer Aziz (from Salon magazine).  The latter is a rather hot-headed cultural warrior who has misrepresented the motives and agenda of Sam Harris and Majid Nawaz, specifically regarding their recent collaborative project against…

Moscow beheading: Nanny claims she was ‘inspired by Isis’ to murder four-year-old girl

This woman is clearly sick in the head.  To “hear voices” in one’s head seems to be a common symptom among the divinely inspired.  Muhammad also heard voices in his head and killed innocent people.  The prophet, just like this disturbed woman, even committed arson against a mosque he “suspected” of harboring “traitors” (see the “Opposition Mosque” in Ibn…